Educational goals
- to allow the acquisition of the elements for the proper diagnosis of a surgical disorder;
- place the correct therapeutic indication;
- identify, where appropriate, the conditions requiring urgent surgery.

At the end of the course students should be able to correctly collect the patient's anamnestic data and to perform the objective examination of the patient, identifying the pathological changes of most clinical significance, be able to formulate a detailed diagnostic hypothesis, propose The most suitable diagnostic route and, on this basis, to place the correct surgical indication.